Darya Saoirse Williams

Sain Cofio, slipped my mind… Discussions around cultural memory and Welsh diaspora through personal objects and digital clouds Gymaint o hwyl yn rhannu arferion ac anecdotes o Lunden, Manceinion a Chymru i ddyfeisio’r stafell ddychmygol yma Diolch @arcadecampfa am y cyfle i chware a @peakcymru am sbarduno’r collaboration Link in bio to scroll through the archive Porrwch ar ddy sul glawiog

Aur Bleddyn & Darya Williams in residency at arcade-campfa.org Conversations and additions to the living room updated weekly. Link in bio. Diolch @celfcymruarts

We are excited to announce our newest digital artists in residence, Aur Bleddyn & Darya Williams. Sain Cofio is a digital living room, a living archive constructed from personal objects associated with memories of Wales from its diaspora, culminating in a shared experience of Welsh cultural memory and explored through live conversations between Darya and Aur. We meet here with a new object or memory throughout the residency, co-building a living room of our personal necessities for remembering and performing Wales from afar. You are invited for a paned or dishgled, to look through our archive, pick up a recipe, look at our performative books and eavesdrop as we discuss our relationship with Wales. See the work, updated weekly, at the link in our bio. - Mae Sain Cofio yn ystafell fyw digidol. Dyma archif fyw wedi'i hadeiladu o wrthrychau personol sy'n gysylltiedig ag atgofion o Gymru gan ei diaspora, gan arwain at brofiad a rennir o gof diwylliannol Cymru ac a archwilir trwy sgyrsiau byw rhwng Darya ac Aur. Rydyn ni’n cwrdd yma â gwrthrych neu gof newydd drwy gydol y preswyliad, gan gyd-adeiladu ystafell fyw o'n hanghenion personol i gofio a pherfformio Cymru o bell. Fe'ch gwahoddir am ‘baned’ neu ‘ddishgled’, i edrych drwy ein harchif, codi rysáit, edrych ar ein llyfrau perfformiadol, a chlustfeinio wrth i ni drafod ein perthynas â Chymru. Diolch yn fawr @celfcymruarts

Black Mountains, Bannau Brycheiniog

Mari [Week] 1/3 2025 Copper coated steel wire and ribbon Made with the help of @rca.making

Using masks and noises of traditional festivities as a cover for rebellion, protest and procession 1. Mari [Day], Black Mountain Quarries, Bannau Brycheiniog - 2025 2. Reclaim The Power protesters, Ffos Y Fran - 2016 3. Reclaim The Streets, M14 Party - 1996 4. Mari Lwyd in Llangynwyd с. 1904-10 5. Dangerous Dances, referencing B. Ehrenreich [2007], Dancing in the Streets

🎫 🌃 bio @codipais Croeso i bawb 💜 All are welcome 💞 📍 LDN

Gorymdaith: Processional Measures across the South Wales Landscape An exploration of alternative remediation strategies at Ffos-y-Fran, the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine. The site lies in Merthyr Tydfil, a landscape shaped by centuries of mining and material extraction, which has left behind vast scars and unstable tips that continue to threaten the valleys, shaping both the land and the lives of those who live alongside it. ••• Six processional interventions, framed through the Welsh language and traditions of ritual and procession, provide a methodology for taking a measure of the land, treating it as an artefact and imagining new ways of inhabiting post-industrial terrain. ••• Gorymdaith presents a broader framework for alternative remediation, showing how bi-lingual design methods and cultural memory can shape architectural intervention. @rca.ads4

Gorymdaith: Processional Measures across the South Wales Landscape An exploration of alternative remediation strategies at Ffos-y-Fran, the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine. The site lies in Merthyr Tydfil, a landscape shaped by centuries of mining and material extraction, which has left behind vast scars and unstable tips that continue to threaten the valleys, shaping both the land and the lives of those who live alongside it. ••• Six processional interventions, framed through the Welsh language and traditions of ritual and procession, provide a methodology for taking a measure of the land, treating it as an artefact and imagining new ways of inhabiting post-industrial terrain. ••• Gorymdaith presents a broader framework for alternative remediation, showing how bi-lingual design methods and cultural memory can shape architectural intervention. @rca.ads4

Gorymdaith: Processional Measures across the South Wales Landscape An exploration of alternative remediation strategies at Ffos-y-Fran, the UK’s largest open-cast coal mine. The site lies in Merthyr Tydfil, a landscape shaped by centuries of mining and material extraction, which has left behind vast scars and unstable tips that continue to threaten the valleys, shaping both the land and the lives of those who live alongside it. ••• Six processional interventions, framed through the Welsh language and traditions of ritual and procession, provide a methodology for taking a measure of the land, treating it as an artefact and imagining new ways of inhabiting post-industrial terrain. ••• Gorymdaith presents a broader framework for alternative remediation, showing how bi-lingual design methods and cultural memory can shape architectural intervention. Diolch enfawr / Massive thanks to @rca.ads4

Cymryd amser i fyfyrio ar y dyddiau anghredadwy yn y Mynydd Du wythnos diwethaf. Archwilio themâu’n ymwneud â thir, iaith a chysylltiad, gyda chwmni o bobl a wnaeth fy ysbrydoli’n llwyr. Diolch enfawr i’r tîm cyfan @peakcymru a’r bardd @casiwyn am guradu’r preswyliad Taking time to reflect on some unbelievable days in the Black Mountains last week. We were exploring themes of land, language and connection, with the most inspiring company. Huge thanks to the whole team @peakcymru and poet @casiwyn for curating this residency Artistiaid // Artists: @owainmcgilvary @aur_bleddyn @hedydd_ioan @eddie.ladd @larisamartseva @pennyhallas

ZG, ISSUE 89 for MS12 Republications // Printer: State Is In Error For @rca.mediastudies 2024-25 Some more spreads from the issue! Reflecting upon the experience of David Williams, Rosetta Brooks (editor) and other ‘A’ Course alumni that founded ZG [1980-1987], this re-publication is a means to create an easily accessible resource that invites future engagements with the ‘A’ Course, fostering re-interpretation and re-actualisation of archival “ephemera”.